page_title: Eurasia Canal
hierarchical_section_title: Eurasia Canal
caption_attribution_description: A satellite image of Lake Manych-Gudilo.
context_page_description: The Eurasia Canal is a proposed 700-kilometre-long canal connecting the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea along the Kuma-Manych Depression. Currently, a chain of lakes and reservoirs and the shallow irrigation Kuma-Manych Canal are found along this route.
  The canal is intended to provide a shorter route for shipping than the existing Volga–Don Canal system of waterways; it would also require fewer locks than the Volga-Don route.
  Manych Ship Canal is the existing canal system that would be the likely route for the Eurasian Canal.
context_section_description: The Eurasia Canal (Russian: Канал "Евразия", Kanal "Evraziya") is a proposed 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) canal connecting the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea along the Kuma-Manych Depression. Currently, a chain of lakes and reservoirs and the shallow irrigation Kuma-Manych Canal are found along this route.
  The canal is intended to provide a shorter route for shipping than the existing Volga–Don Canal system of waterways; it would also require fewer locks (or lower-rise locks) than the Volga-Don route.
  Manych Ship Canal is the existing canal system that would be the likely route for the Eurasian Canal.
caption: Lake Manych-Gudilo is midway on the course of the proposed Eurasia Canal
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